The reason that thousands of medical students around the world can launch Walk with a Future Doc at no cost.

Arlene Rucker – a very special volunteer. For years, Arlene has been going to multiple walks all around Columbus even at the same time. She drops off blood pressure cuffs, granola bars, fruit at one then drives across town (20 miles) to the other and comes back. Then she brings us cakes. ;)

Bem Estar – Dr. Slay (Sao Paulo) working with Angela Pontual at Globo TV on a piece filmed today and will be shown to 60,000,000 Brazilians, shortly (yes, we like seeing all the zeroes).

Dr. Joan Dorn PhD – The previous head of the CDC’s Physical Activity branch but more importantly to us, the national face and voice of Walk with a Future Doc. Joan is doing that interview in Harlem today with Globo.

Dr. Saray Stancic, Ms. Marcia Machado – the two women responsible for adocumentary that we believe can change America. Oh yeah, their film editor responsible for cutting 300 hours of film down to 90 mins. She is amazing too.

Reva, Bev, Kathryn, Liz, Jessica, and (Bryan) – These six people have spent countless hours outside of 8-5 racking their brain on how to make America healthier.

I’m sure you found the pattern now.

Meghan Dunn – our CNN connection responsible for the piece that led to well over 700 physicians engaging with us.

Debra Heater – our primary TMA liaison since the beginning. Lisa Stark Walsh equally responsible for 65 Walk with a Doc’s throughout the great state of Texas.

Janet Meeks and Unhee Kim – The two successive presidents of our Westerville, OH hospital that had/have enough faith in us to provide the space and the room to scale this thing.

In short, Walk with a Doc across the world exists because of, and sits on the shoulders of, incredibly strong women. Hundreds of whom are not mentioned on this list.

Now, I’m going to go give my wife a hug and thank her for vacuuming, getting dinner ready, and cleaning the kitchen while I wrote the newsletter.

Ooooohhh…SNAP! He must be in a whole world of trouble!

Great guess.

Fortunately, not.

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Walk with a Doc in Tulare County has seen since tremendous growth and success since they first started the program in 2013. At their monthly Walks, the ALTURA Centers for Health team is able to offer free health screenings, raffles, snacks, and even dance warm-ups! Their participants know that the Walk will go on, rain or shine, and their Walk family continues to grow each month. Erica Cubas is extremely proud of the program and would like to thank Dr. Ravi Kumar, Dr. Brian Cruz, Dr Ricardo Zegarra, Dr. Jorge Rivera, Dr. Andy Pang, Dr. Chi Nguyen, Ilse Betancourt, Liz Carranza, Roberta Hurtado, Graciela Soto, the outreach team, and the walkers for their support and love of the community.